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• CodeArmor Intelligence Datasheet (165k)
• CodeArmor for .NET Datasheet (143k)
• CodeArmor for Windows Datasheet (155k)
• Piracy Solution Brief (186k)

• SC Magazine: "Debate: Software vendors should 'partner' with pirates to fight unlicensed software use" - February 2010

  "ISVs should take advantage of the value of information inherent in these piracy channels, including otherwise unaccounted for demand, use and adoption of their apps...."
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• The VAR Guy: "V.i. Labs: Helping ISVs Battle Software Piracy" - February 9, 2010

  "Software piracy is a costly problem for independent software vendors (ISVs) and their channel partners...."
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• IT Business Edge: "Software License Audits: What Does It Mean to Be Non-Compliant?" - January 11, 2010

  "The risk of non-compliance should rank high on the CIO’s list of concerns, yet more often than not seems to be relegated to an afterthought...."
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• The Frugal Tech Show - November 3, 2009

  "Frugal Friday with Victor DeMarines of V.i. Labs"
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• eWeek: "McAfee: Piracy Sites Jump 300 Percent" - November 3, 2009

  "The Pirate Bay shutdown didn't slow piracy. In fact, according to McAfee, the number of new file-sharing sites hosting unauthorized, copyrighted content shot up in the past three months..."
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• Smarter Technology: "Stealth App Googles Pirates, Phones Home Forensics" - October 19, 2009

  "With billions of dollars a year lost to illegal copying of licensed software, V.i. Laboratories has made a business of helping independent software vendors recover lost revenue..."
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• The Register: "Torrent crackdown pushing pirates towards file hosting" - October 13, 2009

  "The crackdown on torrent tracking sites such as BitTorrent has encouraged software pirates to make greater use of file-hosting websites..."
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• Computerworld: "What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts?" - October 9, 2009

  "Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites..."
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• Network World: "Products of the Week" - September 14, 2009

  "CodeArmor Intelligence 2.0 gives software vendors greater flexibility for addressing the illegal use of their software..."
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• eWeek: "Pirate Bay Hit as ISP Kills Service After Court Order" - August 24, 2009

  "Taking down Pirate Bay may be little more than a symbolic gesture for those worried about piracy..."
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• The Tech Herald: "New anti-Piracy tool aims to geo-locate software pirates" - June 12, 2009

  "V.i. Labs has created something cool. This is what you would call innovative..."
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• eWeek: "How to Combat Software Piracy: From Reaction to Revenue Recovery" - June 10, 2009

  "[W]hat a software vendor does to combat piracy is directly proportional to its knowledge of the piracy scene motivations and its own piracy activity trends. In fact, you can group how software vendors respond to piracy into three stages: Denial, Reaction and Realization."
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• Tech Target Security Bytes: "V.i. Labs integrates Google maps to track software piracy" - June 8, 2009

  "It is a cloud-based service and uses Salesforce.com platform to provide a dashboard of reporting data, legal information and product management tools."
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• EE Times: "Software pirates pinpointed on Google maps" - May 21, 2009

  "Software vendors fed up with software piracy have responded by beefing up their licensing and activation procedures, only to have pirates crack their code again."
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• SD Times: "V.i. Labs uses Google Maps to keep an eye on piracy" - May 21, 2009

  "V.i. Labs is putting piracy on the map by mashing its database up with Google Maps."
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• The Guardian: "Stormy seas for software pirates" - May 14, 2009

  "Casual users should beware the many dangers associated with cracked programmes, yet arcane anti-piracy measures are not doing enough to stop them..."
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• Info Security Products Guide: "2009 Global Product Excellence Awards" - April 21, 2009

  CodeArmor Intelligence Named Best Intellectual Property Protection Solution
  
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• EE Times: "Protecting software IP: what engineers need to know" - April 20, 2009

  "Intellectual property protection and piracy prevention are not new issues for software vendors, but strategies and opinions vary on how best to combat those threats."
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• Network World: "Products of the Week" - April 13, 2009

  "Our round-up of intriguing new products..."
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• EE Times: "EDAC scans the piracy scene" - March 24, 2009

  "As emerging markets become more competitive and piracy increases overseas, EDA vendors are looking for greater details on the scope of the piracy problem and the best strategies for addressing it."
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• iTWire: "Linux ISVs gain tool to uncover lost license revenue" - February 28, 2009

  "[F]or small independent software vendors each unpaid, unlicensed installation could be taking food from their mouth. CodeArmor is a tool to help developers, and is now available for Linux."
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• Linux Today: "V.i. Labs Handles Copyright Infringement Differently" - February 17, 2009

  "V.i. Labs' CodeArmor uses a different approach: it reports on copies that are actually being used. The idea is to find out who is using the software without paying for it, and then pay them a friendly visit and turn them into a paying customer."
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• SD Times: "Think Like A Hacker" - February 15, 2009

  "[T]he key is acquiring the mentality to understand what the threat is and putting that feedback into the design, DeMarines added."
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• SC Magazine: "Security capital: Funding & Innovation" - February 5, 2009

  "With funding tight, you have to build a 'must have,' rather than a 'nice to have' technology. And that technology should have strong reach and ROI for buyers," says Joseph Noonan, president and CEO of V.i. Labs."
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• Redmond Magazine: "Spying on the Pirates" - February 2009

  "[I]t lets companies know who's cracking their software and who's using it illegally. With that information, companies can track down users of pirated software and take action..."
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• Linux.SYS-CON.com: "CodeArmor Now Sniffs Out Pirated Linux Apps" - January 28, 2009

  "That's the stuff that lets ISVs gather intelligence on the pirated use of their software and recover lost revenue..."
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• Software Quality Insights: "Tools, techniques to avoid common software security mistakes" - January 23, 2009

  "Software developers make common and avoidable mistakes that create vulnerabilities and expose their software to ever-present security threats, according to field observations by Vic DeMarines."
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• Computerworld: "A Brief Tour of the Software Pirate Underground Scene" - December 8, 2008

  "[V.i. Labs' Victor] DeMarines recently gave this reporter a brief tour of parts of the software piracy scene that most Internet users don't get to see."
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• eWeek: "Tracking the Crackers - A Look at Software Piracy" - November 14, 2008

  "V.i. Labs took eWEEK on a brief tour of the piracy underground, offering insights into how such sites operate."
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• eWeek: "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Cyber-crime Edition Slideshow Summary" - November 14, 2008

  "V.i. Laboratories, which specializes in anti-piracy technology for software, took eWEEK on a brief tour of the piracy underworld. Here is a look at a piece of the software pirate economy."
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• Networkworld.TV: "Combating Software Piracy" - October 20, 2008

  Victor DeMarines looks at the parallels between the ISV world and the piracy scene and discusses where ISVs can focus to combat piracy.
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• Boston Business Journal: "Anti-piracy software company lands $4 million in VC" - October 17, 2008

  "We’re one of the few companies that have a solution for software companies that are trying to increase their top-line revenue."
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• Mass High Tech: "V.i. Labs lands $4M in latest funding round" - October 17, 2008

  "The new product, called CodeArmor Intelligence... generate[s] additional revenue for customers by re-capturing unlicensed use of intellectual property."
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• SD Times: "V.i. Labs Smartens Up Anti-Piracy" - September 1, 2008

  "CodeArmor Intelligence threat detector integrates infringement data into Salesforce"
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• Database Trends and Applications: "Securing Software Development in Outsourcing Environments" - September 2008

  "It has been estimated that the world’s software companies are now losing $40 billion in revenue in unlicensed installations. Yet, with all the security technology at our disposal, why isn’t piracy going away?"
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• The Engineer Online: "Pirate Tracker" - August 22, 2008

  "[E]nables the vendor to identify which companies are illegally using its products and gather hard, indisputable evidence necessary to recover that revenue."
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• Dark Reading: "V.i. Labs Releases Anti-Piracy Solution" - August 21, 2008

  "V.i. Labs pioneers new solution for software vendors to combat growing piracy problems and recover lost revenue"
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• Computerworld: "How to turn a software pirate into a paying customer" - August 20, 2008

  "[Forrester's Chenxi] Wang thinks that CodeArmor Intelligence's data can give ISVs the leverage to help turn a pirating company, if approached correctly, into a paying end-user, and ultimately a loyal customer."
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• SD Times: "CodeArmor Pads Vi Labs' Anti-Piracy Offering" - August 20, 2008

  "Infringement data from the product can be used to create a lead that can be followed up by a company’s legal or sales team."
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• CRN: "Anti-Piracy Tool Detects Businesses Using Illegal Applications" - August 19, 2008

  "V.i. Laboratories has developed anti-piracy software that detects when a software product is being illegally used and reports that usage back to its developer, providing independent software vendors and their channel partners a way to recover lost revenue."
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• Dark Reading: "Piracy Groups Exploit Holes in CAD" - August 13, 2008

  "V.i. Labs's research offers insight to high-value software applications and piracy activity."
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• Network Products Guide: "2008 Best Products and Services" - August 5, 2008

  CodeArmor Named Best in Intellectual Property Protection
  
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• Mass High Tech: "Building an arsenal for fighting software piracy" - August 1, 2008

  "Other approaches attempt to stop the crackers directly. V.i. Labs uses source code protection technology to try to stop cracker groups from reverse-engineering software and stripping out licences."
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• Network Security Newsletter: "Obfuscation – how to do it and how to crack it" - July 2008

  Author Victor DeMarines discusses how code obfuscation and other software protection techniques have long been used by software vendors to protect software intellectual property (IP). In the world of anti-piracy, an arms race has emerged pitting protection vendors against skilled reverse engineers and crackers. Protection vendors develop innovative approaches to deter the cracking of licensing and DRM schemes that enables piracy.
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• Financial Times: "Gunning for the copyright pirates" - July 9, 2008

  "Other approaches attempt to stop the crackers directly. V.i. Labs uses source code protection technology to try to stop cracker groups from reverse-engineering software and stripping out licences."
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• Enterprise Systems: "Securing Your Applications" - July 1, 2008

  Interview with Vic DeMarines discussing best practices that IT should follow when protecting its applications, including threat assessment and how to minimize the impact to performance.
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• IT Business Edge: "Protecting Increasingly Vulnerable Applications" - June 6, 2008

  "Piracy has always been around. Where we are seeing the trigger is in the interest of companies to partner with customers in high-risk geographies like Russia and Pacific rim."
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• Information Security: "CodeArmor 2.2 for Microsoft .NET Product Review" - May 2008

  "We found CodeArmor to be very effective. We were unable to access protected .NET applications with a debugger or disassembler."
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• Redmond Developer News: "Protecting Your Property" - May 2008

  "As you might guess, obfuscation only gets you so far. The end result is still IL code, albeit IL that's intentionally mangled. Your average programmer probably wouldn't bother trying to understand it, but to a top-notch IP thief -- or a hacker -- it wouldn't be that much of a challenge."
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• Bank Systems & Technology: "Patent Issues a Growing Concern for Banks" - March 27, 2008

  "Banks worry a lot about customer data -- now they are starting to worry about the IP and the application itself. What if someone knows the application well enough to poke holes in it to get to the customer data?"
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• Information Security: "Application Hardening Tools Help Repel Software Pirates" - March 20, 2008

  "Hackers can defeat normal encryption wrappers by capturing and decompiling code at runtime, but V.i. Labs re-encrypts the function dynamically as it's loaded into memory, making it almost impossible for hackers to capture and crack the entire program."
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• CRN: "Review: V.I. Laboratories' CodeArmor" - March 7, 2008

  "CodeArmor's encryption and similar technologies should be made part of a security policy when developing .NET applications."
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• WindowsForDevices.com: "Encryption tool protects .NET, Windows source code" - February 27, 2008

  "Version 2.2 of CodeArmor for Windows and .NET also boasts expanded anti-debugging, secure debugger enhancements, device driver verification, plus support for Sybase PowerBuilder and Borland Delphi compilers."
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• SD Times: "Special Report on Software Piracy" - February 15, 2008

  "Piracy groups have become their own ISVs," said [V.i. Labs'] DeMarines. "They've got developers, testers and distribution."
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• SD Times: "V.i. Labs Polishes Armor" - January 23, 2008

  One of the main new features in CodeArmor 2.2 is an enhancement to prevent protected application files from being tampered with statically or dynamically.
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• NetworkWorld: "Startup updates antipiracy protection" - January 23, 2008

  Startup VI Labs has updated its CodeArmor software for protecting software against intellectual property theft, adding device driver verification and protection against binary tampering.
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• Dark Reading: "V.i. Labs Enhances CodeArmor" - January 22, 2008

  CodeArmor 2.2... now offers additional security enhancements and further extends the ability to automatically protect a wide range of software applications without modifying source code.
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• eWeek Podcast: "The Mobile Blind Spot" - December 26, 2007

  The world can be an unfriendly place to IP (intellectual property). How to meet those challenges is the topic of this podcast discussion with Victor DeMarines, VP of Products for V.i. Labs.
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• Computer Reseller News: "CodeArmor -- Software Crackers Won't Prevail" - October 23, 2007

  To beat most thieves, look no further than CodeArmor's unique solution that combines encryption, antidebugging and runtime execution monitoring.
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• Enterprise Systems: "Outsourcing: Securing Software Development" - September 25, 2007

  As application development outsourcing pushes into high-risk foreign locations, new techniques are needed to protect software intellectual property.
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• Mass High Tech: "Keeping Software Secure is Pensak's Passion" - September 24, 2007

  "CodeArmor for V.i. is my crowning achievement. It addresses 95 percent of what I see as wrong with the software industry"
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• WindowsforDevices.com: "Tool protects .NET application source code" - August 15, 2007

  V.I. Labs has added new "secure debugging" capabilities to its solution for protecting software IP (intellectual property).
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• Redmond Developer: "V.i. Labs Offers IP Protection" - July 15, 2007

  Analyst, firms warn that outsourcing development poses risk to intellectual property.
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• Computerworld: "V.I. Labs adds snooping to antipiracy product" - April 16, 2007

  "Antipiracy tools vendor V.I. Laboratories Inc. has joined forces with Internet Crimes Group Inc. (ICG) to offer software developers and enterprise IT shops a way to keep track of criminals who are illegally publishing their software. "
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• IT Defense Magazine: “CodeArmor is an out-of-the-box software protection solution..” - April 13, 2007

  "V.i. Labs' patent-pending technology automatically encrypts software at the function level and secures the application run-time environment."
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• SD West 2007: “Top Software Companies to Unveil New Products at SD West 2007” - March 20, 2007

  "V.i. Labs will introduce CodeArmor for Microsoft .NET. The product protects valuable source code embedded in the .NET framework without requiring code modifications or additional application files."
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• SD West 2007: V.i. Labs presents "Dark Side of Reverse Engineering" - March 20, 2007

  Henry Tumblin, VP of Engineering presents at SD West 2007
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• Dark Reading: “.NET Apps Get a Bodyguard” - March 15, 2007

  "V.i. Labs next week will roll out software "armor" for Microsoft .NET Framework applications that hardens these applications so they can't be hacked or pirated, Dark Reading has learned. "
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• Redmond Developer News: “The latest release of CodeArmor protects developers and enterprises” - November 27, 2006

  "The latest release of CodeArmor protects developers and enterprises from intellectual property theft and reverse engineering intrusions. The product works to harden both 32-bit Windows apps and .NET apps."
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• ZDNet India: “V.i. Labs and Reprise Software team up” - November 23, 2006

  "V.i. Laboratories, a provider of software protection solutions for securing high value and mission critical applications, announced a partnership with Reprise Software"
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• Boston Globe (Boston.com): “V.i. Labs partners with Reprise Software” - November 20, 2006

  "V.i. Labs of Waltham said today it has joined forces with Reprise Software Inc. of California to offer a comprehensive defense against software piracy."
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• Mass High Tech: “Tech companies partner to create new anti-piracy software” - November 16, 2006

  "Waltham-based V.i. Laboratories Inc. reports combining its technology with Providence, R.I.'s Uniloc USA technology to create a new anti-piracy software."
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• Gartner Group Report: “Hype Cycle for Cyberthreats, 2006” - September 13, 2006 report

  "V.i. Labs Enterprise Code Reverse Engineering — the reverse engineering of enterprise application code for the purposes of targeting vulnerabilities or stealing intellectual property."
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• PC News Weekly: "V.i. Labs Introduces Method for Quantifying Revenue Lost to Software Piracy"

  "V.i. Laboratories, a provider of software protection solutions for securing high value and mission critical applications, announced today a new method for quantifying the amount of revenue that software vendors realize before and after implementing anti-piracy measures."
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• Enterprise Systems: "New “Security” Blanket for Developers"

  "V.i. Laboratories promises that CodeArmor can secure application code from piracy and reverse engineering "
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• Application Development Trends: "V.i. Delivers Knight in Shining Armor for Developers"

  "Developers may sleep better knowing there’s a new security blanket out there that promises to protect their builds from piracy and reverse engineering. And the product–applied post production–requires no source code modification."
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• eWeek: "Code on the Internet Battlefield Needs Body Armor"

  "These developments shine the spotlight on today's announcement by V.i. Laboratories of Waltham, Mass., of that company's CodeArmor 2.0 technology for adding reverse-engineering protections to executable code."
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• SD Times: "V.i. Labs Protects Apps With CodeArmor"

  "Encrypting the internals of an application and attaching a small debugger that always runs inside of the program are two methods used by Vi Labs’ new CodeArmor application protection software to stem the tide of trojan horses and hacker invasions."
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• Dark Reading: "Startup Locks Down Apps"

  "The father of the firewall is back with a new venture: David Pensak, who designed the first commercial firewall and founded Raptor Systems, now part of Symantec, today is lifting the veil on a new startup with its own approach to securing applications."
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• VentureWire/Dow Jones Newsletter: "Protecting Software From Pirates, V.i. Raises Series A Round"

  "Aiming to protect software applications from pirates and other technologically savvy malcontents, V.i. Laboratories Inc. has raised under $5 million in its first round of funding."
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• SecurityPronews: "V.i. Labs Dons Its CodeArmor"

  "After picking up a first-round of funding from a group led by Rockford Capital, V.i. Labs is ready to ride the wave of software protection needs of application developers."
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• Computer Reseller News: "Startup Toughens Software Applications To Foil Pirates"

  "Software application developers have a new weapon in their battle to prevent hackers and software pirates from reverse-engineering their valuable code. "
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• Mass High Tech: "Waltham startup plans to deep-six software pirates"

  "Serial entrepreneur David Pensak is making a second career out of developing security software -- something his bosses at DuPont weren't much interested in 20 years ago."
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